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Hugo Brassey purchased the Dunk Island resort in 1935. This image shows the house built for him on the island

Photograph of the pitsawn timber hut originally built by J Batting on the farm later owned by Peter and Ellen Flegler. A Case tractor is on the right with five un-named men

Black & white photograph of exterior view of the Innisfail Court House, Rankin Street, Innisfail (corner Rankin Street and Edith Street), taken from opposite corner of intersection. Innisfail Court House was constructed as part of a Government initiated works scheme designed to create employment during the Great Depression. Designed in the inter-war classical style by the office of the Department of Public Works, while AB Leven was the Chief Architect. It was completed in 1939

Photograph of inside Moschella's shop, Butler Street, Tully. The family lived at the rear of the shop. Later the Golden Gumboot Café operated from these premises

Photograph of the shop that replaced the original shop owned by Alf Jago, This new building replaced the old 1920s shop in 1958

Photograph of the original store owned by Alf Jago, taken at an unrecorded date. It was located on the corner of Butler and Still Streets. It was replaced by a new building in 1958

Photograph of the railway station building at Kennedy. The siding was named Kennedy by the Railways Department on 20 Feb 1926, replacing the original name of Mulgan. The North Coast railway line was constructed north from Townsville at the same time as it was being built southwards from Cairns. It was finally completed in December 1924

Lady Brassey and friend attending the Tully Show, probably in the late 1930s. Lady Brassey was the Baroness von Bodenhausen, who became the wife of Hugo Brassey in 1935. They spent some years on Dunk Island where Hugo developed a resort

Black and white photograph of a canecutter cutting green cane by hand. The cut stalks can be seen laid out to the left ready to be bundled and lifted onto bins to be taken to the sugar mill

Black & white Murray Views photographic postcard showing a Leland Hippo timber truck loaded with logs on the Kirrama Range Road